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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:00 am
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If there is any difference in meaning or usage will somone please
illustrate with a couple of sentences?
Lorna
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Don Phillipson
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:57 pm
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Lorna <hlmw1@telus.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | If there is any difference in meaning or usage will somone please
illustrate with a couple of sentences?
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Dictionary compilers have already done this for us --
see for example the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
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Raymond S. Wise
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:09 am
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hlmw1@telus.net wrote:
| Quote: | If there is any difference in meaning or usage will somone please
illustrate with a couple of sentences?
Lorna
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If there were any significant differences in meaning or usage between
"anybody" and "anyone," we would expect such differences to be
discussed in *The American Heritage Book of English Usage* at
http://www.bartleby.com/64/pages/page6.html
or in *The Columbia Guide to Standard American English* by Kenneth G.
Wilson at
http://www.bartleby.com/68/34/434.html
But while these books discuss some grammatical points involving
"anybody" and "anyone," neither book identifies any differences of
meaning or usage between the two pronouns.
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Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com
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joetaxpayer
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:57 am
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hlmw1@telus.net wrote:
| Quote: | If there is any difference in meaning or usage will somone please
illustrate with a couple of sentences?
Lorna
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I'd think this is the speaker's choice. For example;
"Everybody have fun tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight"
just wouldn't sound right using 'everyone' |
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ArWeGod
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:00 am
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<hlmw1@telus.net> wrote in message news:n_g6f.39378$Io.16703@clgrps13...
| Quote: | If there is any difference in meaning or usage will somone please
illustrate with a couple of sentences?
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Everybody must leave the building. Everyone grab a buddy and leave now.
Everybody is all the people.
Everyone is something you, and every other person must do.
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:14 am
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ArWeGod wrote:
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hlmw1@telus.net> wrote in message news:n_g6f.39378$Io.16703@clgrps13...
If there is any difference in meaning or usage will somone please
illustrate with a couple of sentences?
Everybody must leave the building. Everyone grab a buddy and leave now.
Everybody is all the people.
Everyone is something you, and every other person must do.
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If this were understandable, it might be dangerous, because it's
almost certainly wrong.
Except for euphony, I haven't seen any basis for distinguishing the
two.
I hope all that grabbing doesn't hurt the buddies.
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Bob Lieblich
Everyone must leave the building. Eveybody grab a buddy and leave
now. |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:40 pm
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ArWeGod wrote:
| Quote: | "Robert Lieblich" <robert.lieblich@verizon.net> wrote [...]
I hope all that grabbing doesn't hurt the buddies.
Have no fear! You will not be one of the body's I chose to rescue!
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No worries: you'll be trampled to death by the swarm of aueistas, led
by me, rushing the other way with the express intention of rescuing
Bob.
Interesting quasi-subjunctive in your message, by the way: I'll get
Olcott onto it. Good luck selling the fruit and veg, too: it's a
tough game.
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ArWeGod
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:03 pm
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"Robert Lieblich" <robert.lieblich@verizon.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | ArWeGod wrote:
hlmw1@telus.net> wrote in message
news:n_g6f.39378$Io.16703@clgrps13...
If there is any difference in meaning or usage will somone please
illustrate with a couple of sentences?
Everybody must leave the building. Everyone grab a buddy and leave
now.
Everybody is all the people.
Everyone is something you, and every other person must do.
If this were understandable, it might be dangerous, because it's
almost certainly wrong.
Except for euphony, I haven't seen any basis for distinguishing the
two.
I hope all that grabbing doesn't hurt the buddies.
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Have no fear! You will not be one of the body's I chose to rescue!
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ArWeSelective |
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